Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
THE COTTON CONGRESS.
a Meeting that May Result in Great Bene
fit to Texas and the Alliance.

A Meeting that May Result in Great Bene-
fit to Texas and the Alliance.
The coming Cotton Congress to be held
at Waco Nav 4, under the auspices of the
Farmers Alliance, promises to be an
event Of no small importance, and is
likely to mark an epoch in the his
tory Of the greatest industrial or
ganiZstIOn Texas has ever had. In
conversation with State Secretary II. G..
Moore, Friday, q GAZETTE man was
informed that every county in the state
that mad az alliance would be represent
ed The meeting Is called 4 "C0CtOn
congress" from the fact that the order
desires to then take initial steps looking
10 tie establishment OF cotton manufac-
tories at several points in Texas.
The idea is that the time
mas now arrived for Texas TO
st once put herself in line with the
most progressive Of her sister states, and
begin to utilize her splendid re-
sources and facilities in manu-
acturing these things that she has
hitherto been content to import. The
success Of the mills at Columbus and
Augusta, Ca, and other southern towns,
in the way Of turning cotton into cl0tn, is
pointed 10 as sufficient evidence of
what can be done in Texas, if only
q spirit Of enterprise and pluck Will take
the place Of the old time lethargy, now
happily fast fading.
MIR. Moore could only speak IN general
terms, but be is sanguine that the prinCi-
pie of cooperation as applied to manu-
featuring enterprises is bound to win.
The Alliance, he SAYS, is ripe 80 inaugu-
rate such q movement. The farmers who
compose it want to see the fieecy locks,
the product Of their own toll, converted
into cloth and clothing at home. They
are tired OF sending the raw material
hundreds and thousands of miles from
the spot where it is produced. They
want to build factories, give employment
to their own people, and keep millions of
money at home. The factories wherever
located viii be strictly under Alliance con-
troll, supervised and operated by Alliance
people. Those places that offer the best
Inducements will be selected IS locations
for the Alliance mills Already several
towns, among them Temple and Athens,
have written to offer subsidies for the
establishment of factory. If railroad
is worth subscribing for, it is urged that
q manufacturing plant is certainly
worth it, as it gives employment
to scores of bread winners, and they IN
turn spend their weekly wages with
home merchants, and so towns grow and
prosper
What else has built up the north and
east2
Fort Worth, ever alive to her interests,
might do well to see that her name is
brought before this congress at Waco.
1t is sail by everyone that Fort Worth
wants manufactures. Here it would
seem is an opportunity. There does not
appear 10 be any logical reasons why an
undertaking, backed with an abundance
of capital, should not succeed. The AL
hance In The aggregate represents great
wealth. Thousands Of stockh Ilders, own
ing from one to fifty shares in these
plants, ought TO form a very substantial
basis of operation. The matter Is at
least worth the serious consideration of
every town that is IN earnest ab09t get
ting manufactures.